Reviews (page 5 of 7)
Vibey, liked it Had a boring day today, went to school, went to pt, went home and did hw. Am so tired. Reid is currently sick so I'm sleeping in the living room, currently typing this laying on my mattress with Niki.
Fine work background beats, probably the same in a Mary wanna trance
Pretty low key and chill. Very much a predecessor to "Chill beats to study to" or whatever.
Lounge downbeat triphop which is kinda ok.
On its face I find it boring. My way in was when I started appreciating that this music is not about melody and hooks, but about subtle changes - things being added or subtracted slowly over time - that create a mesmerizing, potentially trance inducing soundscape. From that angle I can appreciate it, and I wouldn't mind if it was on somewhere but I am probably not going to put it on myself.
Kind of a nice vibe, a bit in the background for me but that's how I ended up listening. Not bad, I wouldn't be upset if someone threw it on.
I love trip hop but this is more 90s cafe music, didn’t make me feel anything
I am pretty meh on trip-hop. It's not for me, but I understand the appeal. I get why people would like this so much. It was more than fine.
Super funky instrumentals. Really enjoyed this. Good writing music, party background tunes.
Very '90s house stuff, is this even house? Is it trance? Wikipedia says "trip hop," which (a) sounds lame as hell, and (b) is probably the vibe that I don't really like. The kind of '90s electronic that doesn't resonate with me all that much. This one's decent though, there are a few tracks I enjoyed, especially the closer which had more flavor than most of the album. I'm sure there was a lot of great techno/house stuff from the '90s that's dated in a fun way, but this one's not quite that fun. Favorite tracks: Gambia Via Vagator Beach, Wait a Minute, Mission Venice. Album art: Based on this cover and the title, I was expecting something reggae, or anything really that was more "weed"-y. Were people getting high listening to this stuff? Probably. Maybe that's the missing piece here, I was sober hearing it. 3/5
Excellent background with hella bloat in my opinion.
In all honesty, I zoned out while listening to this. Nice instrumental grooves; I'm assuming this is included on the list for either 1) being one of the first successful examples of this style 2) holding an influential status in the music community. It tends to drag a little bit near the end, but a pretty solid listen.
Definitely music to work by. I found myself enjoying the groove but wanted it to be less mellow. All in all a good listen.
Nice chill music on a Wednesday morning
Innocuous, laid-back background music. I really couldn’t tell the difference between most of the songs. But it was good.
Breakbeats, lounge, trip hop - this is a 90s album as you like it. It's the best background music. Nightmares On Wax crafted better tracks though.
I think this one has some potential, and I will give it a re-listen. There aren't many purely symphonic albums on the list and I can appreciate no singing/lyrics and just getting lost in the music.
I like this genre but don't really know the players.
“Nights Introlude” was one of those staple songs of the mid-nineties trip-hop & downtempo scene. It got a boost in popularity when he (Nightmares on Wax) repackaged the song as “Les Nuit” and released it on his next album 4 years later. In comparison to fellow trip hop pioneers, Portishead or Massive Attack, NoW was just a turntablist and as a result, everything is created from looping found sounds and a drum machine, which can be pretty limiting – though Mission Venice and Man Tha Journey are decent. He’s playing at Velvet Underground in 2 weeks: $46.64
One of my all time fav trip-hop songs is Les Nuits from NMOW's debut, Carboot Soul. Here on their second album, they've re-hashed that song into Nights Introlude, but it's still a killer track. I also love Mission Venice and those two songs have been on high rotation for me for many years. Unfortunately the rest of this album isn't at the same level and its very repetitive. Interestingly they also rebooted Nights Introlude on a later album and called it Nights Interlude, its very similar sounding and also very slick, I guess if it ain't broken.... Unfortunately Smokers Delight has 20 songs and clocks in at over an hour so no matter how good Nights Introlude and Mission Venice are, they just can't hold up an entire album of filler.
some super mellow stuff. Good to work to or to have on in the background.
Chill out. Sin más.
Easy listen. Lots of meh tracks on here though. 5/10
A solid beat tape. Not anything super remarkable, but definitely got the solid chilled-out vibe down pat (a very accurate title for this one)
hip elevator music
Relaxing ambient background music that was enjoyable, but not an essential listen. Not the type of music I would sit down and listen to intently, as it's repetition got a bit tiresome after a while. I must have been listening to the deluxe digital version, because it seemed too long.
I wasn’t a huge fan of this album overall but by the end I was wondering why I liked selected ambient works so much but not this. I think it’s because that aphex twin album has a perfectly soothing quality that this record lacks. There were definitely some decent tracks on here but nothing stood out a lot except for the first track that had a bit that sounded like a sample I’d heard somewhere before. Maybe if I only listened to it as long as I needed instead of in its entirety, like I did with aphex twin, I’d have liked it more.
Unexpectedly enjoyable, very sit and listen on a lazy Sunday afternoon
Pleasantly surprised with this one. Thought I would absolutely hate it based on the cover art alone. Incredibly chill. But why one earth would one end on “Gambia Via Vagator Beach”? Dreadful move.
Pretty good trip-hop album that I've never heard before. So a casual look at the details reveals it's from the author(s) favorite genre: 90s UK music that hasn't been heard by the rest of the world. Like I said, good album. But given the fact that it's little known outside the UK and there are pleeeeeenty of relevant and better albums from the genre, I'm just more convinced that Demery really needs to get out more. 3/5.
3/5 Best: Rise Worst: Me and You
I'm struggling to understand why this would be considered significant or important. It's decent jam music. Nothing more, nothing less
Harmless inoffensive beats to relax to.Pleasant enough.It’s nice and relaxing.Good for studying or reading to,but not much else besides background music.
3.5
Ok
It's ok as background music
This is quite a nice chilled out listen but doesn't hit the heights I want from this style of music and that came along afterwards. I lean more towards the trance side of chillout music really.
It kinda feels like you need to listen to this in an altered state of mind. It's still good tho
eclectic mix of instrumental music and samples. perfect background music to record hip hop lyrics over. interesting listen.
Just... like... background bossa nova? Soundtrack to a chill day? Sure. I mean I don't dislike it.
Oh I see what this is for.
Very cool very chilled. This must be a dream after a hard day's work or after the club etc. Good stuff.
pretty okay psychedelic funk but just kept dragging on
Yeah I dug this a lot, great ambient/background music.
Music for: elevators, cocktail bars, trying to fall asleep, edibles.
lo fi beats to study to? Was fine to have on in the background.
It's fine. Beats are fine. I could see a time where I would listen to this again, in the right circumstance and right frame of mind. But not going to be added to heavy rotation.
This is instrumental music I could see myself listening to often while working, etc. 2.75/5 stars
It was fine background music. Did nothing else for me. When the album started over, I didn't realize, so it didn't make a huge impression.
Instrumental okay
Light 6
Ben on l’a écouté ensemble, c’était ben chill pour jouer à Magic mais c’était un peu trop “musique d’ascenseur 3000” pour les 1001
This was not what I was expecting based on the album. Nice chill listen
passed me by this one. i've been reliably informed its for drug induced insomnia which really sells it to you for normal life.
It's the grandaddy of chill out albums. They were well ahead of the game on that whole Ibiza chill trend thing. It must have come out at least 3 or 4 years before Moon Safari. Actually The Orb are the grandaddys of chill out aren’t they? Nightmares On Wax can be the daddys. Perfect music for noncing round a castle with a ginger child
Was so unbelievably bored by this 5/10 Fave: Nights Introlude
Good music to have on in the background. I'm a big fan of electronic music, so this fit the bill. 3/5
I really enjoyed this as a chilled out version
Quite nice for a background album but can't say it sparked joy in me.
I really enjoyed this after a batshit work day. It was just what I needed to declutter my mind. The tunes and no lyrics had a calming effect. It was a little too sparse in places. I bet it makes more sense if listened to through the prism of the album title. Aye
Nothing special, but i did not smoke
Kinda basic, kinda chill background
It's music that would be good when you're stoned, but its not necessarily good music that's good when you're stoned. It's a little bit too polite and 'late 90s vegan wholefood cafe in a run down goods shed' music.
Supongo que a los adictos les gustará mucho, lastima que no soy uno. El álbum no está mal, pero tampoco me parece algo resaltante. Sin embargo, debo admitir que se salva de cierta manera, pues tampoco se siente como algo hecho con las patas. No tengo experiencia con el genero, así que no podría calificarlo de forma muy precisa, pero si tuviera que hacerlo, le daría 3, ya que, si bien no creo que sea la gran cosa como tal, fue placentero tenerlo de fondo.
Nice and chill. Good background music while working.
I don't know if I can call it "contemporary music". Very down tempo, trippy...
Agree with so many other reviews. This album does exactly what it sets out to do and does it to perfection. It's competence at its finest but it just fades into the background and never really gets me enthused.
Incredibly laid-back tracks. Something I would put on as background music, but wouldn't seek it out for a listen.
It's just a whole album of sounds, a little funky and groovy. Doesn't really do much for me though.
me senti assim com diversos álbuns, mas novamente, não entendo pq esse álbum está nessa lista visto que qualquer outro álbum de música chill soa igual. só serve para música de lounge e fundo, não tenho interesse de ouvir por conta própria. álbum ok
"Smokers Delight" is the second studio album by the English band Nightmares on Wax. Nightmares on Wax is essentially DJ George Evelyn. The musical genres are classified as trip hop, techno and downtempo. Gathering more familiarity with these styles, I'd classify this as more trip hop. This is mostly an instrumental album with slight variations between songs. The album begins with "Nights Interlude." It's chill and dreamy and has jazzy keyboards and a slow beat. More of a funky bass is added to "Wait a Minute/Praying for a Jeepboat." "Groove It" throws in weird sounds and tribal drums. There'd be more tribal drums throughout the remainder of the album. A 60's pop melody with keyboards and horns highlight "Mission Venice." The chill melody remains in "Rise" and an orchestral sound and congo-type beat are added. "Gambia Via Vagator Beach" ends the album with a percussion heavy song. Overall, I always felt these ambient, chill type albums are good background music. It's repetitive with its loops. Slight variations in the beats and melodies keep things fairly interesting. If you're into the trip hop and downtempo style, you'll probably like this album.
Nice musique d’ambiance, mais rien de plus. Les suggestions apres l’ecoute etaient meme meileurs. 3
As an active listening experience, this was rubbish. BUT, as background music for getting stuff done, it's fantastic. That averages out to a solid 3-stars, I think. It does beg the question, though: why the hell is this on the list? Why quality made someone think, "this incredibly repetitive, hook-less album is a must-hear!" Utterly mystifying.
good but kind of... forgettable? Def I enjoyed it and would listen again.
Good background jams
It was pretty cool. I'd like to see them live.
Meh.
Basic restaurant music
Started off really feeling this one. NoW comes out with some proper D-Boy sounding beats and they're immediately infectious. However, as I bumped through the album that flavour got increasingly stale. It wasn't that I disliked the vibe or the music overall, more that it all got a bit two dimensonal. The production is catchy but gets less interesting as it goes on. It seems like NoW has his loops set up and moves through them steadily, and that's kind of it. If this was an album from the seventies I would understand that, but because it's not more is needed. In that sense this record reminds me of Lemonjelly who were also big around then. It's that sort of nice and bouncy, easy listening style of beats and - in this case - it's at risk of sounding like the background soundtrack for Babestation. I don't hate it, but can't back it either.
Another unnecessary beats album that is supposedly as must hear as the hundred others on the list.
Good background/ambiance music for when you want to test if the mute button works
Chill. Worth another listen. Goes on a little long.
Chill background music. Didn't hate it but was in no rush to replay any songs.
Pleasant enough. People who like this sort of thing probably rated it higher.
OK.
Smooth background music in my style? Perfect for a work day! Might have gotten bored if I was focusing on the songs more intently.
This is good background music. Nothing more, nothing less. I will put it on in my car if there are a group of people in the car with unknown music taste
Not unlistenable as I anticipated it may be based on the name of the group, the name of the album and the cover art. The album was good background music and better than I anticipated, as it was all instrumentals. I probably would not re-visit this album and struggle a bit to see why it was added to this book as a "must" listen.
Nice, chill background music, perfect for a smokers lounge
Pretty solid background music. Relaxing.
Very Chill, I had no idea what to expect. I'll definitely listen to it again. I didn't get all the way through the album but I got a good-sized portion of it. I'll hit it up again sometime.
This is the third album in a row that hits the 70-80 minute mark - really hoping for a 20 min punk banger tomorrow to counterbalance it. Of the three this is the least deserving of the runtime, but it wasn't as painful as it could have been. There are some hypnotic grooves to get lost in here and there with some nice developments and interpolations. Things started dragging a bit by Bless My Soul but picked up again for the more left-field closing tracks
I thought this was going to be really annoying music for people who have no personality outside of talking about weed non-stop. Instead it was pretty relaxing. It actually lulled me to sleep and I had to go back and finish it. What a pleasant surprise that this wasn't "4/20! blaze it,bro!" bullshit that I was expecting. I mean, it probably would be a nice album to get stoned to. That's the way to enjoy the herb, friends: with a good album, grooving, and not annoying the shit out of others (me) with buffoonery
Sometimes i felt it, but mostly nice background music for a beachclub in the summer.
Mellow tunes, nice in the background but boring.
Background music, or instrumental tracks waiting for a rapper/singer/both to come along and finish them. Sounds kind of like an audio showreel, to demonstrate a producer's work. Not terrible, but interesting; good, just not great.
Would this be called “lofi” these days? That’s not at all meant as a dig. I like this album.
Tis groovy. Panny says that he likes that it is subdued, predictable, and safe, and I agree. Like a stress ball for your ears. It’s pretty long... Definitely more of a background soundtrack for when you’re smoking doinks with chums or throwing a Ham Party.
Pretty cool vibes but definitely felt like background music
It was pretty good, but sort of like new age music where it's nice to have on in the background but doesn't really make a big impact. A little edgier than new age but same sort of vibe. 3 stars.
"Smokers Delight" by Nightmares on Wax is a chill and laid-back album that showcases the group's unique blend of trip-hop, ambient, and electronic music. The album's standout tracks, "Pipes Honour," "Wait A Minute/Praying For A Jeepbeat," and "(Man) Tha Journey," are moody and atmospheric, and they perfectly capture the laid-back vibe of the album as a whole. Overall, it's a solid album that is perfect for relaxing or unwinding after a long day. While it may not be for everyone, fans of trip-hop and ambient music will definitely find something to enjoy on this album.
There are some really good tracks and some very forgettable. Overall the vibe is good and I liked the Parcyde sample in the first track. Decent+ instrumental album. It probably lacks a bit of punch at moments. 3.25 / 5
The concept is good but there is way too much of it and youll want it to finish a long time before it does
Estuvo ok, supongo. Creo que para el año en que fue lanzado supuso una bocanada de aire fresco, pero a estas alturas más bien parece música de sala de espera. En todo caso, se deja escuchar.
Chill music to have in background
Definitely got lost in a trance a couple times on this one. Nice and relaxing. Good zone out music, very dubby.
Good triphop stuff, very much a sound of the 90s kind of thing. 3/5
Lounge Musik. Hat was von elektro aber ist eher so electrical guitars oder so aber bisschen lame
Chilled instrumental hip hop, actually enjoyed it for the most part, but a whole album of chill out is a bit much. 2.7
je suis non fumeuse donc pas le public visé je pense .
3.75
Decent background nusic
Self descriptive. Cozy and easy to listen.
Super viby. I can definitely see how this would be great to listen to while high. Kind of boring and tedious if not.
I'm like everyone else thinking this is a groovy chill piece of relaxation music. I don't think it's worthy of the 1001. But still nice.
Absolutely funkadelic
Ähnelt dem, was ich immer "Musik für Klamottenläden" (die mir meistens gefällt, auch wenn ich seltenst in Klamottenläden gehe) nenne, dafür aber ein klein wenig zu abgedreht. Mittlere drei Sterne.
The shorter songs were better, I thought. Most of the songs over 4 minutes felt like they were DEFINITELY over 4 minutes long. They went on and on, and you could feel that they could have ended at least a minute or two earlier. Again, the kind of music you listen to, and then pretty much forget afterward.
Some decent drum or bongo beats - including an African-style sound on Stars and Gambia via Vagator Beach. A couple other songs had some interesting musical blends that I think were synth but created a jangly guitar/piano feel (Pipes Honour), or a bass-heavy melody (Groove Street), or just something different (Mission Venice). So definitely some variety but I still felt uninspired.
Vibey
ambience but little more funky
Such a chill album. Ben R introduced me to Nightmares on Wax and I've been a fan ever since. Elements of funk, world music, R&B, soul and more wrapped up in a smooth, electronic package. I did find that some of the songs and the album itself began to loose my attention given the length, but it's perfect background listening. Fav Tracks: Pipes Honor, Groove St.
good enough
I found this all a bit same samey.
I liked the ambience and cruisiness of this one.
Nice music for walking around Placencia Belize
Pretty awesome background music but that’s all this is.
Best relaxt.
Liked some songs, but nothing really stood out to me.
Nice trip hop album
góð playa i like it
Hit and miss
Late-night chill out background music, enjoyed the grooves.
Pleasant, non offensive but not terribly groundbreaking in any way. I did enjoy it though
Good background music, ideal to fall asleep with.
Chilled out background noise
Chill beats
I can't believe that it's taken me 72 albums to have the thought, "Hmm, this album doesn't sound like I thought it would from the cover," and, duh, oh yeah, there's a saying about that. I guess this was the first time I misjudged, and so I figure, just maybe, since about 1955, you CAN usually judge an album by its cover. When I read that it was in a list of the top 50 trip-hop albums of all time, my thought was, "There's 49 more of these?" I think we've already gone through a bunch of that list. Not that I don't like it fine enough. It's not designed to be catchy or anything. Re-listening to snippets, I enjoy them more than the 6–7 minute song experience. The one time it really caught my attention on first listening was the phrasing of "and me... you... and me... you" which I thought was kind of cooly jarring.
So this is trip-hop, huh? Pretty cool, but it all kinda blurs together into a smooth operator soundtrack.
Nice old school lo fi. Good for chill background but nothing too unique.
It is a long trek to the end, though the music is an interesting assembling of electronic, hip-hop and creating crafting. Nothing that left a permanent mark, but it was an enjoyable journey.
I worry I’ve lost my way since I last played it. After the joy of seeing this album again after so many years had subsided I immediately started wondering where there’s apostrophe missing in the album title.
Not a bad album but nothing to get excited over. Mostly instrumental.
Not a big trip-hop guy. Maybe when I was younger and stoned out of my skull 90% of the time this would have hit differently. But I don't even really know how analyze this one lol. I didn't hate it, it feels too long, and drags at points.
At this up like a stoner with munchies in the early 00s... sounds a bit like empty calories now
Plenty of worthwhile stuff but like most DJ output just found a lot of it monotonous. I don’t know how into this music you can get if you’re not part of its Scene, though I’m sure many unaffiliated aficionados would show up to prove me wrong
Definitely not my cup o' tea but for what it was I didn't hate it.
3.1 Goede achtergrond muziek wel, meer kan ik er niet echt over zeggen. Wel nog is spelen voor op kantoor denk ik! goede office vibes!
perfect achtergrond album
Long songs, sort of unique 3/5
Solidly chill album. I like that it embraces who would listen to it and for what reason.
Decent chill background music. Probably won't listen again though.
Nice background music.
I have no idea how to critically assess this album.
Laid-back Summer-time trip-hop style instrumentals.
Listened to a few tracks, sounds like the instrumental interludes from early massive attack but a whole album of it
Nice trippy album.
Relaxing
6
Not bad, not sure why it is on the list.
Got this on 4/20 so the name was appropriate
Decent chill music
#246 listening diary -The cover looks like one of those white men doing reggae kinda thing. I'm scared. -This isn't too... enthralling... let's say... There isn't much to say about this, so I'm just gonna name songs that I like when I like them: •Groove St. -Nevermind I was doin other shit.
Seems like an odd album cover for fairly bland background music. 2 stars or D.
idk maybe it's good if you're chemically impaired, as the title would suggest, but i just found it boring. a few good ideas and sounds absolutely beaten to death with repetition.
Musik som en del av inredningen i en hotellbar eller på ett spa. I den genren är det rätt bra. Ett album jag måste ha hört? Knappast. Efter en genomlysning kan jag inte avgöra om jag hört de tre första spåren på repeat eller hela albumet.
Repetitive trip-hop, and not particularly my style. More background listening than something I'd stick on actively.
Es wirkt heute wie der etwas träge Startschuss für das, was später als Chill‑ und Downtempo‑Ästhetik groß wurde. Die warmen Loops und entspannten Beats haben Charme, aber vieles plätschert eher vor sich hin, ohne echte Tiefe oder Spannung aufzubauen. Man hört den Ansatz, aber noch nicht die Reife
Good background muzak and an interesting vibe, but not much more.
A mostly musical album of pretty chill music. Is this supposed to be what stoners listen to? I thought they put on live tracks of the Dead... This isn't hard to listen to, but it wasn't thrilling enough for repeated listens.
It’s funny generating an album about what I was complaining about the previous day. This list has too many instrumental albums. This just makes good background noise it’s not something that would get my attention. 5/10
Another one which is totally new to me. Not at all what I was expecting based on the album art, which looks more like Bob Marley and less like the boring blandness which followed. Suitable for some purpose, I suppose. Music to clip your toenails by, perhaps.
I couldn’t put up with an instrumental today just way too boring I had to turn it off
Kinda good at times but mostly boring.
gaap
uitgezet om toch maar nog een keer naar de war on drugs te luisteren. saaie wachtmuziek terwijl ik op iets crunchy, zwaars hoopte
Background music at work, but even then, I found myself getting bored with it. Just so still and with very little punch, especially at a time when juggernaut trip-hop and instrumental hip-hop groups were making the rounds (Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Portishead, Chemical Brothers, etc.). This just seems too tame; I don't get it. 'Pipes of Honor' and 'Stars' were maybe the worst offenders, just the most yawn-inducing music you'd probably hear at a shopping mall or an elevator or something. I understand this is meant to be background music, but it feels like it fell a bit *too* much into the background. Some solid loops here still, though, 'Bless My Soul' I certainly enjoyed a bit more than some of the other songs here. I liked the sort of dusty psychadelic quality it had. Had that vintage, uncanny Boards of Canada vibe to it, same with 'Cruise'. Not the worst thing on this list, but I just don't understand its placement here. Not in the slightest. There are many better albums in this alley.
this was boring, not much special about this, i don’t know why it’s on the list
Ikke for me
Uinteressant triphop. Orket ikke å høre alt.
Like a glorified version of being on hold
Why is this on the list? It's alright just a bit boring to listen to as its fades into the background. my biggest gripe: why the fuck is this thing so long. Over an hour of again, background music that doesn't really go anywhere interesting or expand on the initial ideas of the tracks all that well.. There's much better downtempo trip hop even on this list. It's inoffensive, just utterly mindless to listen to.
Best song is under a minute. 2 is being kind.
2 out of 5. Wasn't expecting to see them on this list. Hoping it was In a Space Outta Sound instead.
Jams are so dull they couldn't cut butter
The 7 excruciating minutes of "Cruise (Don't Stop)" is exactly where I needed to stop.
dont like this weird instrumental ish album
Old Sky TV Guide menu music again, but whilst Everything But The Girl at least had some lovely vocals providing an extra layer of depth, this fully drifted into peripheral listening and never really threatened to truly grab my attention. Not bad by any means, but wholly unremarkable.
Perfect music to sleep to
No fav song
I listened to this while watching cricket, which seemed to fit the chilled out vibe. It helped me relax while watching Leicestershire lose
Hold music
La verdad Meh, tipo esta bueno pero tampoco que me genero algo. lo escuche medio de fondo sin prestarle mucha atencion though
Inoffensive but overly long, repetitive, and boring.
I always thought that chill-out tracks were created by looping parts of existing songs without the melody track. With that in mind, I find it a bit confusing that Nightmares On Wax’s “Smokers Delight” is being recommended to me as a full-length album. I have to admit that a few tracks on it do show some compositional skill. Still, the difference from my alarm clock’s ringtone wasn’t exactly obvious. Even if the sentence makes little sense out of context: disappointing, as expected.
Trip hop, ok, goes on and on
Trip-hop was such a cool and interesting movement in the 90's. One moment you could be listening to very dark and oppressive sounding pop songs like Portishead or Massive Attack, and the next moment you could be listening to background nothing-burger muzak such as this. You never really knew what you were going to get!
That time you phoned the bank and were kept on hold for over an hour.
A semi-enjoyable, late-night album. Some dreamy basslines (take 'Wait a Minute' or the smashing 'Groove St', or the funky bass of 'Cruise (Don't Stop)') covered in shimmering synth, or the ambient 'Rise') engendering a relaxing mood. I've seen it noted as trip-hop, although it has less of the darker trip-hop undertones of Massive Attack (or the Portishead and Morcheeba debuts). It has more of a soulful gloss to it; over the course of 75 minutes it can drag somewhat - or alternatively be played as pleasantly inconsequential backing music.
This was solid background music while I worked. While most of the songs didn’t grab me, the particular song, “Rise”, did grab me for some reason. 2.75
Trip hop just doesn't work for me. Not terrible, but not something I will return to
ambient but too manufactured for me
didn't really find anything interesting about this album, but I'm not a trip hop fan and I mostly heard only classics of this genre, which in comparison are way way better
I have enjoyed plenty of electronica and cannabis in my life, but there's a particular 90s style of unstructured, unmelodic, chill-out vibe based on weak drum patterns and random jazz samples that I find very tedious, and this is a prime example.
4/10
5/10
90s chill out or background music, Not sure why it's on this list but nothing awful. Okay in a wine bar but otherwise meh
I have never heard of this album or band and without doing any research am going to guess this is one of those "only included because the guy is British" things... [goes to Wikipedia:]"George Herbert Evelyn[5] (born 15 January 1970), better known by his stage name Nightmares on Wax or DJ E.A.S.E., is an English DJ and record producer from Leeds. His music has been released by Warp Records.[6] He is based in Ibiza." I give myself 5 stars for the guess. This sounds unfinished, like the beats an MC would buy from a clearinghouse to rhyme over. But not even that good - it sounds like background music for a cheap video game. This does nothing for me. I don't hate it at first, not bad to have on in the background while working, but it gets SO REPETITIVE. I can't imagine putting this on to actively listen to it. Not a genre I have any interest in, so perhaps unfair to judge it too harshly. For that reason I'll give it a 2.
This whole genre is just kind of a miss for me, not compelling
#907. Sounds like songs made for a high school music production class. 2/5: meh
Yeah I don't know about this
4.5/10
Kaffee-Corner Musik für mich, glaub 2 Lieder die ich "ok" fand. Sonst x-beliebig für mich.
2/5 Hintergrundmusik. Nervt nicht, ist aber auch nix besonderes.
Elevator music. No idea how this made the list 😅
Completely fine background music
Got a little boring after a while.
I had to listen so many times because I kept just forgetting it was playing and tuning out. As soon as I did anything else I forgot to keep listening. Fine line between chill and boring. Favourite song: Rise Least: (Man) Tha Journey
I'm not against this type of music; I enjoy beats like this and I love a lot of ambient music that is meant to kinda hang out in the background, but this just does not feel like it has the same amount of soul as what I am used to. Doubt I'll really be coming back.
Rätt ointressant
Artistens namn, namnet på albumet och illustrationen på omslaget gav mig tre helt olika förväntningar om hur det skulle låta och vad jag sen faktiskt fick var ytterligare något helt annat. Kan inte kalla det dåligt, men världens bakgrundsmusik som jag knappt märkte att jag lyssnade på, och har svårt att säga varför jag skulle välja just det här albumet för.
An ok album but not one you have to listen to before you die
Not really for me, but certainly sounds like the mid 90s in this genre.
Random inclusion from a group nobody has heard of. Alright instrumental listen but is not anything special compared to most of the albums from the generator.
It's chill but not my style.
Half ideas, background music, not great.
Perhaps smokers delight in this repetitive, banal album, but I was ready to move on 40 minutes in. That I had to endure more that 30 more minutes is nearly unforgivable.
I have never taken the drugs that make this alright music. Tedious and repetitive.
It was like bad elevator music or on hold music.
This is just background music that would play if someone puts you on hold. The album wasn’t a pain to get trough so im that is why I won’t give it a 1.
Their first album was rough & ready, but had a charm and reflected the exciting evolution dance music in the UK, particularly in the north, was going through. This is better produced by comparison, but it’s not no heart.
Background music
Too long it’s just fine
Too repetitive and too muzak-adjacent for me. I like a bit of edge in my trip-hop and I doubt even an altered state as per the title would make this sound any less cheesy to my ears. Even for 1995 this sounds out of date. It's a year after Massive Attack did some cutting edge things with a very similar sound palette on Protection, so I can't even really see the appeal of this historically.
The music consisted of smooth beats that never did anything to catch my attention or cause a reaction. I would equate this to music you would hear in a coffee shop or bistro in 2008. Good for a background to a party I guess.
I don’t really get why this is on here, but is good background music.
che rottura
Never found it's groove
Reminds me a YouTube playlist to code to
Not for me but good
This is… bland. I tried, I really did. There are some nice grooves here and I would start to warm to it. But then it would just go on and on and on. I suspect this may be designed for listening to while high, it’s the only half decent explanation I can come up with
izgleda da su ovo samo instumentali, sto je zapravo savrseno jer pisem seminarski iz fizike i treba mi fokus. 1001albumsgenerator are you spying on me? groovy bas u groovy st. - fitting. gotovo - nisam odusevljena. nista posebno nije lose, u tome i jeste problem, jer nije u pitanju nista posebno. postoji toliko pesama, a i albuma koji su iskljucivo instrumentali i koji imaju neverovatnu produkciju i koji kroz same instumente mogu da ispricaju pricu. ovo je samo glorifikovana lofi muzika da budem iskrena. nista ne fali da album bude tog zanra niti ista fali takvoj muzici, ali ne vidim razlog da ovo bude na listi albuma koje moras da cujes barem jednom u svom zivotu. ali jeste mi pomoglo da se fokusiram za pisanje seminarskog!
"Thank you for the calling Generic Corporation customer service hotline. All of our operators are assisting other customers. Please stay on the line, and a representative will be with you shortly. Your call is very important to us." The album cover did not prepare me for listening to over an hour of hold music. 2 boring, inoffensive, non-intrusive stars.
The greatest sin this album commits is that it’s boring. Every now and then it strikes me as interesting and then squanders that by just repeating itself over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Again.
It was OK and would’ve been a 3 if it were half as long. Got knocked down a star because I couldn’t not stop it early.
72 minutes. No thank you for the offer of this background music. Worse than that one HOLD music that nobody wants to hear. Ever. Again. ⭐⭐
Repetitive background. I put it on and then forgot about it while I read a book. Not something I actually needed to hear before I die.
Das meiste kannte ich schon vom Fahrstuhl
i wanted to shoot myself listening to this album 20 times. no more fuck ass instrumental albums. there is 0 need for a song to be over 6 minutes if there is no singing. 2/5
Pri umývaní riadu je takáto hudba v poriadku, ale ja si v nej nenachádzam miesta, ktoré by som chcel počúvať detailnejšie, resp. opakovane.
This has elements of Massive Attack and Skream! but in a more mannered and jazzy way. No doubt it was fun at the time, especially if you were a weed smoker. It feels a bit bland now; pleasant enough but not very interesting.
Whatever. Another boring collection of samples.
Favorite track(s): Pipes Honour Made for good background music while reading, but maybe I don't slonk gang weed enough for this to stand out
il contesto in cui nasce quest’album è interessante e sapendo anche dell’influenza che ho avuto ero molto curiosa. ascoltare i primi brani infatti è stato un fatto, per esempio il basso in Stars è un fatto. però alla sesta traccia ho appeso perché non riesco a sentire una roba del genere molto a lungo.
Non sono riuscito a sentirlo tutto, non fa per me
This was a respectable chiller, although I did feel a lot of these songs went on much too long for their own good. Perhaps if I listened to it high while doing a jigsaw puzzle instead of under-caffeinated while commuting to work I would have felt differently though.
This is not for me. If I want to chill out this much, I just won't put on music. Or I'll, go to sleep.
It takes you to a place for sure, unfortunately nowhere I want to be. The cover/title and font sure hints at something that it ain’t. It’s pure background. It is very, very, very repetitive. It’s deadly slow. It’s awfully long. I know someone made this but it is so electronic and lacking humanity. I found nothing captivating and really struggled to make it through, though I got there. 2 Star
Dull 90s dance
Not notable
I’ve listened to the opening track for years now and a couple other songs from this group so I had high expectations, but I wasn’t too pleased with the rest of the album. As ambient music, sure it works. Otherwise, listening to it was a bit of a chore.
It's a nice, chill vibe for over an hour. And that's it. There is nothing special about this album, and there are at least two others on here that are indistinguishable from this one. This is simply filler, which is terribly disappointing. Influence 1. Hits 1. Quality 4. Intangibles 1. It's fine; this is fine 3.
Every time a new song started I thought to myself “this is a cool idea” and then they repeated that same idea for 6 minutes. This formula went on for 74 minutes. I wanted to like this, I didn’t. Favorite song was Wait A Minute/Praying For A Jeepbeat.
After my kvetching about yesterday’s instrumental lounge album that didn’t go over so well, I get an instrumental lounge album that I like slightly less, somehow. Some good things about this record are the use of electronics, some hints of dub, and how Smokers Delight isn’t trying to be a film score or anything too edgy. The problem with this album is also the inverse of yesterday - this thing got more snoozy as time went on. I had really high hopes for Smokers Delight, so maybe I’m feeling the letdown a bit, but this thing sat in the bad middle ground between neat beats and atmospheric ambiance. Lemme take “Bless My Soul” as my favorite for its groove that had an excellent pocket (thats definitely the same drumbreak from Da Funk) and how it varied/evolved over its 5+ minute runtime - it felt a bit like a cut from DJ Shadows Endtroducing! & “Gambia Via Gator Beach”? Not that’s a cool track. Needed more of that. What started out as a blissful lounge album turned into something wholly unreasonable to be put on a list that should illicit some level of active listening/analysis.
Repetitive to the point of uninspired boredom, and overly long.. not the worst thing here, 2/5
Not sure why this is on the list other than the electronic and British over-representation. Not even a standout track here.
Not at all what the title seemed like..
Repetitive, and not at all was I what I was expecting from the name and album cover and the picture of the artist on Spotify.
Not my vibe
It’s a vibe but because of the length, this album became boring.
The best think about this album is the title. Spot freakin’ on. If I were stoned when I listened to this, I probably would’ve thought it was genius. I wasn’t.
Really not too bad for an electronic instrumental piece. Not what I was expecting. Easy background music. Doesn’t belong on this list though. High 2+.
Pleasant background music.
I don't doubt the amount of craftsmanship George Evelyn put into this, but it recedes into pleasant background music for me—like what I'd hear while I wait for the barista to prepare my cold brew. The 1,001 book boldly asserts, "Smokers Delight is one of those albums that everyone will ask about when they hear it playing. Then they will probably head out and buy their own copy the very next day." Maybe in the UK in the mid-'90s, but for me in 2025, I'll save a couple tracks to a playlist I have on while I'm working.
Endlose Wiederholungen
meeehhhhh
Interesting album, and not bad in any respect, but not really my thing.
Disco muy aburrido. No me sirve ni de posavasos :’(
Belle musique de détente d’ascenseur ou hall d’entrée, un peu trop répétitif.
Expected something more…interesting? weird? But it’s just nothing music, background in a trendy bar, michelin star, etc
I like trip hop but I have no idea how this nothingness could possibly have made the list when there's already been a decent amount of trip hop. It's just . . . there? Not terrible, but completely unmemorable.
Bit a drag this. Some sort of dance, chill-out music that went on and on.
- ai tää oli tämmöstä - emmä tiiä onks tää ollu jotenki uraauurtavaa aikoinaan mut nää samat biitit on nykyää joka kyläräppärin biiseissä
Pretty good ambient, sets a mood, but is it an album?
Yeah, pleasant enough.. but passes me by a bit
Interessant, aber nicht so meins
Seichtes Gedudel, das nicht meinen Geschmack trifft.
When I was in college and had a big assignment due, I would find a playlist of epic soundtracks to put on while I worked. I remember LOTR, 300, and the Halo games had some good ones that I used. With that playing, I could churn out a half-dozen pages in no time. This album had a similar effect. By the time it was over, I realized I'd just researched and written 500 words about strategic maneuvers in the Revolutionary War's Chesapeake Bay naval battles. I kid, of course. But it really was pretty good music to have on while getting work done. I'm a little torn on it, since it was a pretty cool vibe for the background and I enjoyed the listen. I'm just not sure that makes it something that should be on the list. Overall: 2.25/5
Loading screen music
Good background noise to work to. Great album art though
This is #day460 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… yeah, these must be my '90s electronica days: yesterday it was David Holmes, the day before Underworld, and now this. Chill soundscapes built on trip-hop, breakbeat, jazz, and whatnot. Some tracks seem to drag on forever without a destination. As for the record's title, all two or three times I tried weed in my life, it was a nightmare. Haven't touched that shit in like ten years, and not intending to. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day461.
hmm not sure what this is doing here exactly Will I listen to again: 0%
Great production and cool for the time, just too long-winded for me. I wish there were more melodic hooks and more shifts in texture throughout
Put it on while doing some house cleaning. It was okay for that. Mostly it reminds me why I don't smoke dope and sit around in my underwear giggling at nothing for hours on end. Bailed on it way before the halfway point. This ain't my cup of tea.
Literally the musical equivalent of content. I feel like I should’ve been charged $8 for my coffee while listening to this.
Incredibly boring! Not offensive enough for a 1 I suppose. But man
Also not great in a digital format.
# Album Name: Smokers Delight # Artist: Nightmares On Wax # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Honestly, its a bit like the EDM albums you find on here, im sure a lot of them are great but you really have to be high AF to enjoy this. Its decent background music but clearly created to smoke weed with. Look, thats fair enough. I get that. Theres plenty of music catered to drug use. But sadly, this did not hit home, it was quite repetitive, im actually sober AF at 10am in the morning and its long as hell. # Top Tunes: Who knows man. # Would I listen to it again? Not unless i was having some good weed.
Instrumental 80's video game music.
Meh. Bet it would sound badass in an NYC cocktail bar after several martinis, though.